Category: Low No & Mid-Strength Drinks
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Alcohol-Free Wine vs AF Beer: It’s Not a Fair Fight
Most importantly, STOP comparing it to full-strength wine. It’s a different product; it’s going to taste different! Even those that come close to traditional wines will always have a different flavour profile (well, until someone works out how to replicate what alcohol actually does in the glass, at least), and that’s OK.
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Is Going for Two the New Going for One? Coasting with Mid-Strength Drinks
For me, low-no and light drinks are all about choice. They’re about options that I never felt I had when I was in what I lovingly call my ‘professional drinking days’, and that I’m really excited are available to moderating drinkers now.” Coasting with mid-strength
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Alcohol-Free, Non-Alcoholic, De-Alcoholised: What’s The Difference?
It’s not uncommon, if you’re exploring this whole new world of low and no, to be holding two different beers in each hand with the same label but different amounts of alcohol.
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Can 0.5% Drinks Get You Drunk?
Your body is a pretty awesome place. And while alcohol is treated as a toxin that needs immediate removal, your metabolism works fast enough that a 0.5% drink gets processed and removed long before it has any chance to get you even the slightest bit tiddled.
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Understanding the Costs: Why Alcohol-Free Drinks Aren’t Cheap
So, producers must find other ways to deliver the flavour experiences you’ve come to know, love, and expect from adult drinks. More ingredients, processes, equipment, new technologies, and a lot of time go into manufacturing liquids that you can enjoy in the same way as your favourite beer or wine. This all costs a lot…
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A Grown-Up’s Guide to Appreciating Booze-Free Drinks
Taste your low, no or light drink for what it is, not for what it isn’t. Once you stop expecting a carbon copy and start appreciating what’s actually in your glass, you’ll open up a whole new world of taste experiences.
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To Mock or to Cock? That is the Question
Mocktail is an internationally recognised term. If you go into any English-speaking town and ask for one, everyone knows what you mean. Do you run the risk of the dreaded mixed juice in a tulip glass serve? Yes, but if it opens up a conversation where both sides feel they can communicate safely, then isn’t…
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12 Reasons to Skip the Booze That Aren’t About Being ‘In Recovery’
These twelve are a reminder that when someone does choose to go low, no or light for the evening, it’s not always a confession or a cry for help — it’s life, logistics, health, taste, or simply a breather. So the next time you’re out and your mate orders an AF beer, skip the inquest…
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Beyond Bananas: Everyday Foods That Contain More Alcohol Than 0.5% Beer
“Is 0.5% ABV truly alcohol-free?” they ask, before tossing the bottle back in newfound alcohol-free indignance. But little do they realise, their kitchen is already stocked with foods that contain just as much, if not more, alcohol as those rejected 0.5% beers. And yet, no one’s raising alarms over a slice of toast or that…
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